diff --git a/js/modules/loki_message_api.js b/js/modules/loki_message_api.js
index d6c2e65e6..a53fcefca 100644
--- a/js/modules/loki_message_api.js
+++ b/js/modules/loki_message_api.js
@@ -5,8 +5,7 @@
 const _ = require('lodash');
 const { rpc } = require('./loki_rpc');
 
-// Will be raised (to 3?) when we get more nodes
-const MINIMUM_SUCCESSFUL_REQUESTS = 2;
+const DEFAULT_CONNECTIONS = 2;
 const LOKI_LONGPOLL_HEADER = 'X-Loki-Long-Poll';
 
 function sleepFor(time) {
@@ -88,7 +87,8 @@ class LokiMessageAPI {
     this.sendingSwarmNodes = {};
   }
 
-  async sendMessage(numConnections, pubKey, data, messageTimeStamp, ttl, isPing = false) {
+  async sendMessage(pubKey, data, messageTimeStamp, ttl, options = {}) {
+    const { isPing = false, numConnections = DEFAULT_CONNECTIONS } = options;
     // Data required to identify a message in a conversation
     const messageEventData = {
       pubKey,
@@ -267,114 +267,6 @@ class LokiMessageAPI {
     await Promise.all(promises);
   }
 
-  // stale function, kept around to reduce diff noise
-  // TODO: remove
-  async retrieveMessages(callback) {
-    const ourKey = window.textsecure.storage.user.getNumber();
-    const completedNodes = [];
-    let canResolve = true;
-    let successfulRequests = 0;
-
-    let ourSwarmNodes = await lokiSnodeAPI.getOurSwarmNodes();
-
-    const nodeComplete = nodeUrl => {
-      completedNodes.push(nodeUrl);
-      delete ourSwarmNodes[nodeUrl];
-    };
-
-    const doRequest = async (nodeUrl, nodeData) => {
-      const params = {
-        pubKey: ourKey,
-        lastHash: nodeData.lastHash || '',
-      };
-      const options = {
-        timeout: 40000,
-        headers: {
-          [LOKI_LONGPOLL_HEADER]: true,
-        },
-      };
-
-      try {
-        const result = await rpc(
-          `http://${nodeUrl}`,
-          this.snodeServerPort,
-          'retrieve',
-          params,
-          options
-        );
-
-        nodeComplete(nodeUrl);
-        successfulRequests += 1;
-
-        if (Array.isArray(result.messages) && result.messages.length) {
-          const lastMessage = _.last(result.messages);
-          lokiSnodeAPI.updateLastHash(
-            nodeUrl,
-            lastMessage.hash,
-            lastMessage.expiration
-          );
-          const filteredMessages = await this.jobQueue.add(() =>
-            filterIncomingMessages(result.messages)
-          );
-          if (filteredMessages.length) {
-            callback(filteredMessages);
-          }
-        }
-      } catch (e) {
-        log.warn('Loki retrieve messages:', e);
-        if (e instanceof textsecure.WrongSwarmError) {
-          const { newSwarm } = e;
-          await lokiSnodeAPI.updateOurSwarmNodes(newSwarm);
-          completedNodes.push(nodeUrl);
-        } else if (e instanceof textsecure.NotFoundError) {
-          canResolve = false;
-        } else if (e instanceof textsecure.HTTPError) {
-          // We mark the node as complete as we could still reach it
-          nodeComplete(nodeUrl);
-        } else {
-          const removeNode = await lokiSnodeAPI.unreachableNode(
-            ourKey,
-            nodeUrl
-          );
-          if (removeNode) {
-            log.error('Loki retrieve messages:', e);
-            nodeComplete(nodeUrl);
-          }
-        }
-      }
-    };
-
-    while (successfulRequests < MINIMUM_SUCCESSFUL_REQUESTS) {
-      if (!canResolve) {
-        throw new window.textsecure.DNSResolutionError('Retrieving messages');
-      }
-      if (Object.keys(ourSwarmNodes).length === 0) {
-        ourSwarmNodes = await lokiSnodeAPI.getOurSwarmNodes();
-        // Filter out the nodes we have already got responses from
-        completedNodes.forEach(nodeUrl => delete ourSwarmNodes[nodeUrl]);
-
-        if (Object.keys(ourSwarmNodes).length === 0) {
-          if (successfulRequests !== 0) {
-            // TODO: Decide how to handle some completed requests but not enough
-            return;
-          }
-          throw new window.textsecure.EmptySwarmError(
-            ourKey,
-            'Ran out of swarm nodes to query'
-          );
-        }
-      }
-
-      const remainingRequests =
-        MINIMUM_SUCCESSFUL_REQUESTS - successfulRequests;
-
-      await Promise.all(
-        Object.entries(ourSwarmNodes)
-          .splice(0, remainingRequests)
-          .map(([nodeUrl, nodeData]) => doRequest(nodeUrl, nodeData))
-      );
-    }
-  }
 }
 
 module.exports = LokiMessageAPI;
diff --git a/libtextsecure/outgoing_message.js b/libtextsecure/outgoing_message.js
index 5d2610f17..26b66bc35 100644
--- a/libtextsecure/outgoing_message.js
+++ b/libtextsecure/outgoing_message.js
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
 
 /* eslint-disable more/no-then */
 /* eslint-disable no-unreachable */
+const NUM_SEND_CONNECTIONS = 2;
 
 function OutgoingMessage(
   server,
@@ -188,13 +189,16 @@ OutgoingMessage.prototype = {
     const pubKey = number;
     try {
       // TODO: Make NUM_CONCURRENT_CONNECTIONS a global constant
+      const options = {
+        numConnections: NUM_SEND_CONNECTIONS,
+        isPing: this.isPing,
+      }
       await lokiMessageAPI.sendMessage(
-        2,
         pubKey,
         data,
         timestamp,
         ttl,
-        this.isPing
+        options
       );
     } catch (e) {
       if (e.name === 'HTTPError' && (e.code !== 409 && e.code !== 410)) {